fifteen hundred a. march in nicosia the controversial bailout deal they say their future has been stolen all of this is the chairman of the country's largest bank just resigned. that's consistent with the verdict following a post-mortem exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky firming up suggestions that he did take his own life. and emerge as the leaders of the brics group convene in south africa the summit promising the establishment of a new development bank expected to certainly reshuffle the international financial scene.

thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. i'm live in moscow with your news from all around the world. now more than a thousand students have protested. this against the last ditch bailout deal the government struck with its creditors on sunday high school and university students marched to the presidential palace in the cypriot capital chanting slogans and saying their future has been stolen. as the chairman of the bank of cyprus the country's largest financial institution has resigned. in the mediterranean state remain closed until thursday to prevent a massive run on the accounts of depositors with over one hundred thousand euros in two of the main banks could see about forty percent of their assets levied of course to raise money for the bailout. as the latest from the casino. now this is like. the heart of. with its international creditors to get that ten

billion euro bailout it needs and what will happen to this back essentially is it will be split into pieces and people with deposits of more than one hundred thousand euros that are uninsured will have to take a huge here haircut a lost whatever money they have here and many cypriots for the past week have begun to motional rollercoaster wondering what is going to happen to their money to their savings every look at this example one day it was here the next day it is it and they're wondering is the same thing going to happen to their jobs or their savings to everything else they think they have precisely what did you choose and tonio a manager for the country's biggest bank the bank of cyprus has been thinking all through this rollercoaster week for the first time in my life for thirty years. that. i was going to. be more.

to. the bank of cyprus according to the deal will function as the good back it will take all deposits of less than one hundred thousand euros from like it will however also absorb the debt. in loans which like you receive from the european central bank as emergency funding assistance a detail that angers them. they want to. and while this employee worries about the health of his bank other cypriots worry about when to reopen if at all we have no cash we are just a truth behind him waiting to get something. for how long.

and while this you are. a complete banking meltdown for many cypriots the feeling towards grow up is one of frustration it's better to go back to the past or the time we get today you know it was a disaster for us it was a little. better before with pounds he's acquired from it was january two thousand and eight when we enter euro the only other cyprus was upside down so slowly we were able to do this kind of situation. where it's such. a situation to have to wait. two to come it's going to take so long and for now cypriots are forced to wait for banks reopen for cash to start flowing in for jobs and life savings to be secure again. does or sylvia r.t. nicosia cyprus. well let's get some more on the story right now we're joined live

from nicosia by chris a storm of the media is a member of the media group called wake up cypress so good to see you today thank you for coming out odd to see you are they in the cypriot capital can you tell me how are people responding to the financial tobin's we've now seen the past couple of days of so many protests indeed today fifteen hundred student protesters in the streets can you tell us. how long from the because he has the world. thank you for having me on. that people are shocked obviously because at the end of the day they did not expect these decisions from the usual group i don't think that it's correct to speak for the bailout because this is not the bailout it can be best described as an overnight assassination because with the diseases that they are taking the little group they have pretty much the story forty percent of the economy and none of the we also right on top of that problem that we have another a little and you kind of discovered understand that the math doesn't work well

understandably when you talk about forty percent of all of what they call legally taxes forty percent being taken out of certain various bank accounts with over one hundred thousand euros not just the big players there are the little average people as we all are also being hurt by this tell us this here at r t the banks are closed until thursday how are you expected to survive can you go grocery shopping can you pay your bills if you can't get any cash out from the machines. what obviously oversleep were facing a new kind of thing when in the european union this is the first time that he has this has been done but obviously you do understand that it's like planting a bomb in the structure of the financial system itself therefore i don't see how any any vest or people can teach their money in the banks when now that we would have a problem twice or even more as bad as it was before then obviously there will be a phrase for a new levy on the fund deposits so how are they expected to keep that the poses in the banks and you feel. however the bank supposed to continue well i mean you bring

up a very good point here not just about the about the bailout but also about about what will be left for example of the head of the largest cypriot bank resigned after which are now is that the bank of cyprus will inherit billions of toxic assets from like the bank how are you supposed to proceed into the future when you're being given money but the money is also being taken away. this has been done elsewhere as well we all know very well the example of greece is this is this has happened before and the head of the bank of cyprus are designed for a very good reason because obviously he he acknowledges the fact that they cannot continue on with these terms and conditions demanded by. their forward there is no other solution they should have from the beginning said no to these demands and if they would like us to continue as partners in the european union then obviously we need to remain partners and not just be pushed around because of our age of political position and because of the problems that we're facing since one thousand

seven hundred and the illegal occupation of turkey well i'd understandably certainly a lot of the bank is on cyprus are being pressured from brussels by the e.u. politicians there however at the end of the day chrysostom do you do you trust the bankers now. that's a very funny question who can trust the bankers don't fook don't forget that this whole debacle started from the banks it themselves now we are being asked to trust the banks this is a joke it cannot be asked on the people to do that what the regulators should do and should have done is to have the mechanisms in place since obviously they cannot control these what we call does the market to actually you know have a face saving mechanism when things go wrong to actually be able to control it somehow instead in the european union they are still discussing about the mechanisms and every single time every single bailout has new terms and conditions we have seen these now five times no two bailouts are exactly the same in the u.k.

in the eurozone and obviously this is not something i started know it's been going on since the seventy's isn't it chris thomas i mean he is from the wake up cyprus river life for us and you can see i thank you very much indeed for coming on r.t. today and good luck with what's ahead. thank you very very much. well that we'd like to know what you think about the ongoing total and so in cyprus if you head over to our website r.t. dot com right now you can participate in our latest web poll of course the big story cyprus we're asking you what's next for the country now that this bailout deal has been sealed bring out the numbers here are the numbers are for this hour from r t dot com still though the majority of voters up to nearly forty percent saying that trust in banks well is just going to be a total collapse ultimately aggravating the financial crisis even further just over a third now thirty one percent saying well there are going to be some other e.u. or eurozone countries or could be in line for a similar job down to

a third position now if you're going to cause more social discontent and protests of course today fifteen hundred students at least from high school and university protesting on the streets there in the capital of cyprus and then down to the bare minority is down to ten percent now that well cyprus is poised for an exit from the euro twenty four hours ago we were reporting numbers that sixty seven percent of all cypriots want to leave the euro or you can tell us what you think at r.t. talk. or i ten minutes past the hour moscow time this is r.t. a post-mortem examination has revealed the death of the russian self exiled tycoon boris berezovsky was quote consistent with hanging his body was found in his u.k. mansion this weekend and the investigation does continue details now certainly the latest from our correspondent sara. the investigation of course into the death of boris berezovsky ongoing they've released the results of that post-mortem

examination carried out by a home office pathologist this found that the cause of death is consistent with hanging but there's no sign of a violent struggle now you're remembering and earlier statement from the police they said that there was no evidence at that point in the investigation of a third party involvement now they're still toxicology tests to be carried out and the results of those aren't expected for a couple of weeks at the forensic examinations still taking place boris berezovsky is home and today the formal id procedure is actually going to be carried out as well to identify that body with the hugely controversial character that you had in boris berezovsky those always going to be this huge amount of intrigue and speculation now in a previous statement the police had said they're now trying to build up a picture of the state of mind of the man in the last days of his life i think a lot of people detail that that's pointing towards police looking at the possibility that this is a suicide but of course no confirmation on any of these details as they fall now

other unconfirmed details that have come out during the course of the last few days that there are reports of a scarf found by the body there are also reports that the body guard in self was actually asked to run errands on the morning then this that boris berezovsky died as it had actually been in the home at the time of course the police had said that the employee has then come back being concerned that his employees welfare and have broken down that massive spill where the body was then found in separate pieces to this case in the last days of his life. he had given an informal meeting to journalists in which he'd spoken of losing the meaning of life and again reiterated this longing to return home to russia quite a sad picture i think really this being built up but of course so many unanswered questions still at this point and i think that's very much what the police are going to be looking to do now is pull all this information together and try and

answer some of these questions that remain as the investigation now progresses. still to come off to a very short break here on r.t. a small dog that can shuffle you off to prison israeli soldiers are running up behind online videos deemed inappropriate by the army just by the i.d.f. attempts to bolster its publicist campaign. plus the u.s. military admits the number of hunger strikers at guantanamo bay has risen again continues to deny that most of the detainees there are starving themselves more on that and other stories just as. when their own country can't offer them a living even loving mothers sometimes have to leave their children behind. i do like to wonder just a bit longer. is the dream of millions of migrants the children might choose their

motherland. i want my children to win over moscow. russia has become this motherland. migrants working hard to find a way home. and

it's a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital this is artsy now the u.s. military has admitted the number of hunger striking detainees at guantanamo bay as risen to twenty eight but officials continue to deny allegations that most of the one hundred sixty six people held there are trying to starve themselves to death of course this all in protest of their indefinite detention and the military is now making the facts a bit harder to verify as a guy nature can went to investigate. despair among detainees grows now even their lawyers are denied direct access to them attorneys say they had a visit scheduled for early next week with one of the clients who lost thirty pounds since the strike began at the beginning of february that is it was approved by the military but the attorneys say they have just been informed by the authorities that they cannot visit the client because the military flight scheduled for next week was canceled also most recently the navy decided to discontinue

commercial flights to the camp so tourney's are really struggling to find out the true extent of what's happening in guantanamo now as u.s. officials obviously try to downplay the hunger strike more criticism is coming in from the international community with heard criticism from the u.n. commissioner for human rights very strong words from amnesty international they call guantanamo an american gulag this is what the head of their security with human rights campaign said quote instead of justice for the nine eleven attacks one tunnel has brought us torture indefinite detention unfair trials and hunger strikes so it made a very broad international criticism of what the u.s. officials are basically nothing a few months ago state department shut down the office that was working to close the prison which effectively means that the detainees are stuck there in this legal limbo indefinitely their attorneys fear that we're going to see more suicides human rights organizations say there were hundreds of suicide attempts at the prison at least seven suicides have been reported so far including a detainee named. he had spent eleven years in guantanamo he was cleared for

release by both bush and obama administrations he took his own life in september last year. he's got a nature can write that now a new powerful institution the brics joint development bank is set to emerge on the international financial stage as the fifth annual summit of the world's fastest emerging economies has now kicked off in south africa and the leaders of brazil russia china india and of course the host nation this year and they're all being joined by egypt's president morsi he's hoping to book a key place in that club and get more details now. joining us live here on the program from durban good to see you go let's let's discuss some of the points here there must be a lot on the table for this meeting now what can you take us through some of the key points. for sure what we're witnessing now is the transformation of bricks from a dialogue forum to a full on mechanism for. cooperation and one of the issues to discuss here in south africa currently is

a joint development bank possibly we had quarters in moscow and with a starting capital of around fifty billion u.s. dollars now also last year at the bric summit in new delhi of the five partners the five nations decided to conduct all of the payments between them in their national currencies to protect their economies from things like currency wars or the consequences from the change of. the rate of the dollar and in connection with this there is also an idea of forming a bank for international payments now another issue discussed here in south africa is also. seeing. what's called an emergency fund a joint in the just a fun story with a capital of around two hundred forty billion u.s. dollars which is very important especially in light of the latest turbulence of the global economy and specially troubled new trouble in the euro zone and analysts say that to the way it's going now is that we could also expect. the forming or the

funding of a joint headquarters so brics in the near future that's really interesting stuff. if you talk about this joining of the. mutual bricks bank for that matter you talk about an emergency fund possibly worth two hundred forty billion dollars and i don't know perhaps it's early days yet with the i.m.f. or the e.c.b. be involved in this or indeed just keeping a very close tab on it for that matter this summit completes the first cycle of all member states now hosting they achieved much in this time. of hard to underestimate the importance and the potential off the brics nations first of all the combined population of all the five states nearly three billion people you can truly understand the potential in that also the average g.d.p. growth last year was four percent while in the g seven it was around it was last than one percent and so while there is big potential in those big ambition and very

similar positions on international affairs russia and china are members of the u.n. security council but what the key idea of this organization is is that it's not in opposition to other international organizations but is only for international cooperation would be when and with everybody who wants to take part in fact egypt has been clearly voicing its desire to possibly join the organization as well very interesting stuff indeed you're going to be going up and thanks very much. want to talk to charlie or the dean of the school of international affairs he believes in the five years since its creation and the brics nations have proven that they do the end of the day i mean business. from the early days when it was seen as an upstart that was still getting its act together and resolving and ironing out some differences we have come a long way in five years the fact of the summit center continuing to be held all of the light some of the critics who said that this was just a marriage of convenience or just a short piece i don't for

a photo op and nothing more what we're seeing now is that their agenda is quite advanced especially the economic economic integration among latin america asia and africa has been spearheaded by the legal of the brits definitely russia and china are i would say the central pillars of bricks if you remember that you know they were the only candidates on the concept and they have many of us brought along so to africa india and brazil to play a larger ruler and also russia and china are much more global in their overall approach towards the world order and trying to transform the world order the other three are i would say a little more studious school east although they do want to move towards more people already. while the arab spring has failed because it was pushed upon the region by foreign forces with their own agenda that's the view of the former yemeni president ali

abdullah saleh who himself was forced out by the uprising. first there was a marxist project then there was the nationalist project they've both been tested and now these foreign forces want to see is the missin action they said let's test the islamists who are of course known for being extremist foreign power players thought they could control the islamists while the islamists themselves wanted to prove they are not extremists and have a right to come to power up but the arab spring is now fading out what was made of sand will fall back into sand this process was brought from abroad and that's why it is friday. and into the r.t. world up there we go starting with the syrian opposition in exile which has taken the countries of the arab league summit in doha syria's membership of the body was suspended in two thousand and eleven after the start of the uprising against president assad the opposition delegation is led by. the president of the national

coalition who did attempt to resign as its leader over the weekend is yet to comment on his role as a national representative. of. the taliban says it's behind attacks that killed five officers and wounded four others in eastern afghanistan earlier on tuesday and this comes after president hamid karzai said that he's ready to talk with the group when he visits qatar in a few weeks u.s. secretary of state john kerry has been pushing the country towards peace negotiations despite karzai as recent accusations the u.s. is polluting with the taliban and he washington is running against the clock meantime to try and stabilize security after his troops finish their withdrawal in twenty fourteen. a leader of rebels occupying the capital of the central african republic says he has suspended the country's constitution and dissolved parliament the military is going to persevere and sunday forcing the president to leave the

diamond rich country reports say south african troops who have been helping the government forces have also been pulled from the region by the rebels actions have so far been condemned by the united nations. so when does what's online cross the line in israel the country's military is widely using social media as a p.r. tool during combat missions but what happens when the soldiers start using these means in appropriately for. as the story offensive and damaging or a bit of fun a picture of an israeli soldier with mud on his face titled a bomb a stone posted on facebook by none other than the head of the i.d.f. social media universe should have don't wish to merge just as the government uses social media for explaining for complaining for propaganda or for spinning it also has to do with private soldiers using new media every soldier is a broadcast station. it looks innocent enough but this soldier got two weeks in

a military prison. while after posting these pictures on his facebook profile this infantry fighter was brought to book for abuse of power and misuse of army weaponry . these soldiers turned their patrol in hebron into a dance move. it angered the i.d.f. but others felt they did a far better job of showing the human side of the army than any spin doctor ever courage under the military code of justice offense nothing could sergeant and above which if in fact any conduct which is unbecoming an i.d.f. soldier would would would before really potentially at least expose you to criminal liability could actually find yourself in jail but it's not always fun and games neither is it so clear cut the i.d.f. told r.t. that a sniper who posted this image was dealt with appropriately it's the problem of of free speech i don't see how you can control it i don't think that the dancing is

abusing power i do think that putting your sniper a more in innocent person is an abuse of power and i think this is the think that the army should do gil you gave was an officer with the paratroopers unit he says he'd brief his soldiers regularly about what they could and could not post online but many were careless or childishly unaware of the impact one clip could have you have to remember that soldiers are. kids. eventually they're just they're just kids that misuse the misuse of power just for them and just one is not shooting the kid. trying to kill the kid the irony is that the i.d.f. itself put so much emphasis on social networks using them extensively to promote its actions. the i.d.f. has taken its war to twitter facebook instagram and even tumblr turning its social

media tool box into the most globally visible arm of the israeli defense force it started during the israeli gaza war at the end of two thousand and eight but the idea of social media department. it's online muscles during the flotilla incident a year and a half later distributing regular video taken from an israeli assault craft and tweeting in sixteen languages after the most recent israel gaza war last november the erstwhile embarrassed i.d.f. social media guru boasted his unit had beaten the enemy some claim foreign media asked more questions about the idea of twitter activity than about the army's bombings in gaza. but when ordinary soldiers start using the same platforms all that positive public diplomacy to be undermined one pic at a time. to see on t.v. tel aviv. all right on the way shortly here on

a close look at the lives of migrants and russia are working towards a better future this is r.t. live from moscow. oh since the new pope was chosen the calls for reform are endless everyone wants the new pope to allow this and to allow that but the problem is that the catholic church is a religion not a product and people don't like the way a pepsi bottle looks while the company will have to in theory change it to meet public demand but the pope claims to represent the will of the creator of the universe the pope supposedly holds and protects an ancient an eternal truth so how can you expect this eternal truth just up and change because of public demand even though they pretend like adult religions do change over time but how can you expect

the pope after hundreds of years of saying that people would be condemned to the fires of hell and eternity in the charred walls of the damned for certain sins just now say well i guess those sins are ok if you're catholic and you want your religion to change constantly then why do you believe in it why bother having principles and rules in the first place supposedly given to you by the almighty if you're just going to change them whenever you feel like it i don't get this but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it in real. was.